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• Has the Protestant Work Ethic Theory Been Proven a Fraud

  
  Opinionated Catholic — Authority: 444
  Well this is interesting. I want to see this paper. The UK Telegraph has Has the theory of the Protestant work ethic just collapsed?
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• Has the theory of the Protestant work ethic just collapsed?

  
  News Religion — Authority: 129
  Has a young Harvard graduate student in economics dealt a deadly blow to Max Weber’s theory that Protestantism favours economic development? Davide Cantoni has just produced a briliantly argued paper which takes economic data from Catholic and Protestant cities in Germany from 1300 to 1900, subjects them to ...
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• The Advent Wreath

  
  Living Water From an Ancient Well — Authority: 121
  During the cold December darkness of  eastern Europe, pre-Christian Germanic peoples gathered boughs of evergreen and lit fires as a sign of hope in a coming spring and the renewing of light. By the middle ages German Christians adapted the tradition of  forming an evergreen wreath  and lighting candles as ...
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• More than Half in Turkey Oppose Non-Muslim Religious Meetings

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 140
  Survey finds nearly 40 percent of population has negative view of Christians.ISTANBUL, December 4 (CDN) — More than half of the population of Muslim-majority Turkey opposes members of other religions holding meetings or publishing materials to explain their faith, according to a recently issued survey.Fully 59 ...
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• Youth chorus to sing ‘A Central Texas Christmas’

  
  Newstreamz San Marcos — Authority: 150
  If "A Central Texas Christmas" is a big gorgeous musical gift then the addition of the Hill Country Youth Chorus is like the shiny gold bow.
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• The Weekend: Seven choirs singing, six groups a-dancin’ …

  
  Newstreamz San Marcos — Authority: 150
  If you cant find anything to do around San Marcos this weekend, you are living in one of those sensory isolation boxes, tell you what.
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• Is Patriotism and Nationalism a Bad Thing?

  
  Opinionated Catholic — Authority: 444
  This is always a topic that comes up in some form on religious blogs. There was nice discussion of this on some conservative sites the past week. Jonah Goldberg responds (see the links) a tad here. See On Patriotism and Nationalism I do like this line of his that I will store away " The lethality of every ...
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• 5 Protestant Icons

  
  beauty of the bible — Authority: 422
  I was tagged by my blogging buddy Gary (whose blog has the coolest name in all of blogdom, The Sundry Times ) to name five Protestant icons. It’s hard to narrow to five, but I shall do my best. 1. John Wesley – I must agree with Gary, Wesley is as iconic as they come, and, since I attended a Methodist ...
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• Ten Catholic Question For Anglican Theologian and Bishop N. T . Wright

  
  Opinionated Catholic — Authority: 444
  N. T Wright continues to have perhaps a lot more influence in the United States than in his own UK. Everyone reads N. T Wright. Catholics read him, Reformed read him and Evangelicals read him. Sadly I was not aware that about 5 years ago he was just speaking about a hour away from. I so wish I would have gone. At ...
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• Its A Wonder ful Life Versus The Fountainhead

  
  Opinionated Catholic — Authority: 444
  A good little essay here by Joe Carter. See The Fountainhead of Bedford Falls at Firtst Things
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• The Neediest Cases: An Underemployed Victim of the Recession, Now Ill and Facing Eviction

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  Teresa Gates in the apartment she has lived in since she was 3. “I have a two-page résumé with all the jobs Ive had,” she said.
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• To Divide or Not to Divide, That is the Question

  
  Per Christum Catholic Blog — Authority: 122
  I have made some comments over at Kendall Harmon’s blog related to whether women’s ordination and sexuality issues are “first order” or “second order” issues, and whether you can simply “believe the creed” and be considered catholic. My first comment states that I don’t believe you can divide ...
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• In Defense Of Complementarianism: A Response To Allen Yeh (Part 3)

  
  Evangelical Outpost — Authority: 487
  In my last post I gave several theological arguments designed to undermine the presuppositions of egalitarianism, show that Christianity is inherently patriarchal, and prove that there does not need to be any inherent opposition between equality and hierarchy. Now I will examine three important Biblical passages ...
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• When “nice” is a health hazard

  
  Movements that change the world — Authority: 121
  I recently encountered a group of denominational leaders who held views on biblical authority and sexual ethics that were diametrically opposed to the vast majority of their members and churches. How is such a situation sustainable? Easily. Most of the members are unaware of the views shared by their ...
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• Everyone knows that Presbyterians, not Lutherans, are the hard-working Protestants

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 682
  Via Will Wilson and MR , here’s an interesting paper on the Protestant work ethic: Many theories, most famously Max Weber’s essay on the ‘Protestant ethic,’ have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development. With their considerable religious heterogeneity and stability of ...
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• “Church of Christ” Cult?

  
  Seeing God's Breath — Authority: 117
  As found in the Bible and today, Jesus’ Church is certainly not a cult. Jesus built His Church and bought the Church with His blood. Yet, there are so-called Christians claiming to be members of the Church of Jesus Christ who have strayed into abuse.Many sectarian may argue that any church that differs from their ...
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• How did the reformation contrubite to the with hunts in the 16th and 17th century?

  
  http://diddy.name — Authority: 171
  How did the Protestant Reformation contribute to that? Is it because of their beliefs?
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• The end of capitalism

  
  Jeune Street — Authority: 410
  I’m going over some old notes on Max Weber’s  The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism for a presentation on modern secularism that will be happening at Trent University next week. Let me just say that Weber rocks hard. These are among the closing remarks of the book, which argues that the Protestant ...
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• Federal Court Says You Cant Shut Up Churches

  
  Opinionated Catholic — Authority: 444
  From Mirrors of Justice Heres Judge John Noonan, writing a few months ago in the Canyon Ferry Road Baptist Church case : An unregulated, unregistered press is important to our democracy. So are unregulated unregistered churches. Churches have played an important — no, an essential — part in the democratic ...
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• Should Christians Sign The Manhattan Declaration?

  
  Great Adventure Ministries, Inc. — Authority: 113
  Should Christians Sign The Manhattan Declaration? Published December 1, 2009 by Pastor Adam Gislason Great Adventure Ministries My answer is no and for many of the same reasons that Christian leaders should not participate in the upcoming Break Forth Canada Conference January 29-31, 2010 in Edmonton, Alberta. I ...
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